Disney's Magic Highway USA

I didn't remember that we owed thanks for the Cumberland Gap passageway to Daniel Boone, that was grade school history lessons... a long time ago.

Or that the road system was doing well until the rail roads got into their growth... The Wonderful World of Disney was a hell of a good show, usually informative, and entertaining

Long used by Native Americans, the Cumberland Gap was brought to the attention of settlers in 1750 by Dr. Thomas Walker, a Virginia physician and explorer. The path was explored by a team of frontiersmen led by Daniel Boone, making it accessible to pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee.

In 1775 Daniel Boone, hired by the Transylvania Company, arrived in the region leading a company of men to widen the path through the gap to make settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee easier. On his arrival Boone discovered that Martin had beaten him to Powell Valley, where Martin and his men were clearing land for their own settlement – the westernmost settlement in English colonial America at the time. By the 1790s the trail that Boone and his men built was widened to accommodate wagon traffic and sometimes became known as the Wilderness Road.  Now this road has become highway 25 E